Mouse/human sequence divergence in a region with a paternal-specific methylation imprint at the human H19 locus

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 1155-1161

  Jinno, Yoshihiro ^a   Sengoku, Kazuo ^b   Nakao, Mitsuyoshi ^c   Tamate, Kenichi ^b   Miyamoto, Toshinobu ^a,b   Matsuzaka, Tetsuo ^a   Sutcliffe, James S ^d   Anan, Tadashi ^c   Takuma, Naoyuki ^b   Nishiwaki, Kunihiko ^b   Ikeda, Yuichiro ^a   Ishimaru, Tadayuki ^a   Ishikawa, Mutsuo ^b   Niikawa, Norio ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b ASAHIKAWA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^c KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REPETITIVE DNA; SOMATOMEDIN B;

ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; DNA STRUCTURE; FETUS; GENE LOCUS; GENOME IMPRINTING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOUSE; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOMATIC CELL; SPERM;

EID: 10144230716     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/5.8.1155     Document Type: Article

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